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This was the question: Which ayat of the Quran contains every single letter of the Arabic alphabet? And so it was that a visitor to this website called Imad left the correct answer in the comments section. There are two:

Surah al-’Imran : Ayah 154 (3:154)

Surah al-Fath : Ayah 29 (48:29)

His source: it turns out that the reference he used was a response to a question asked by another chap in my class! Small world.

The verse our Qur’an teacher has in mind is ayah 29 of al-Fath, which classical Arabists used to teach the alphabet, which consists of 29 letters. This is it:

We are told that we should know how to write and pronounce this verse. One day, perhaps.